Causeway Ringer
Classification:
3 Y-YYR[ Small-Cupped ]
Season:
Mid-Season
Height:
Standard - 32.5 to 67.5 cm (12.8 to 26.6 in)
Hybridizer:
, Northern Ireland, UK
Registered:
Yes, 2011
Seed Parent: 
Timolin 3 Y-GYR 
Carncairn Daffodils, Northern Ireland
Year Registered: 1985
Sunapee x Aircastle
Timolin
Pollen Parent: 
Badbury Rings 3 Y-YYR 
John W. Blanchard, England
Year Registered: 1985
Ferndown x Achduart
Badbury Rings
Seedling Number:
9809
Used as parent:
2 times as pollen
Comments

Fl. rounded, 112mm wide; perianth segments 50mm long, broadly ovate, rounded at apex, mucronate, yellow, slightly reflexed, plane to a little incurved, smooth and of heavy substance, overlapping a quarter; the inner segments narrower; corona 12mm long, disc-shaped, smooth, yellow, with a thin band of bright red at rim, mouth flared, ribbed and even, with rim crenate.

Origin of Name

Part of Derrick Turbitt’s ‘Causeway’ series. The Giants Causeway is an array of an estimated 40,000 basalt columns located on the north coast of Northern Ireland. It is frequently referred to the ‘Eighth Wonder of the World’.